KDE continues to improve Wayland in a week in which many 15-minute bugs have been discovered

  • KDE continues to work on the new features of Plasma 6.6 while fixing Plasma 6.5.
  • They have discovered many bugs that need fixing.
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Fixing bugs in KDE Plasma 6.5

When we publish the weekly news updates of KDEWhat many would like to read is that everything is going well and that they're adding improvements to the desktop. That's usually the case, and this week has been no exception. But what has happened is that they've discovered 18 new 15-minute bugs—those that occur shortly after turning on the computer. The bad thing is that bugs exist, but not that they're found, because then they can be fixed.

What follows is the list with this week's newsNot counting the bugs fixed beyond a brief mention. It's also worth noting that the increase in bugs is due to the developers using a higher priority level to detect and eliminate them more quickly. All for the better.

This week they have made significant progress in KWin display support in Wayland, specifically improvements to the mirroring and custom modes

New Features Coming to KDE

plasma 6.6.0

  • The Window List widget allows you to filter windows that are not on the current screen, current virtual desktop, or current activity, just like the Task Manager widgets do.
  • Discover now allows you to install and remove fonts on distributions with package managers that use the PackageKit library.

KDE interface improvements

plasma 6.6.0

  • KWin's "Minimize all" script, which is included by default even if it is not activated, now also allows you to minimize all windows except the active one using the keyboard shortcut Meta+Shift+O.
  • KWin now sets reasonable default scaling factors for newly connected TVs.
  • Several related elements from the context menus of the Kicker, Kickoff, and Application Panel widgets have been grouped together.
  • The kscreen-doctor tool now indicates that it is possible to duplicate screens.

Grouped menu items

Performance and technical in KDE

plasma 6.5.5

  • A case has been fixed where .desktop files with names that did not meet the specification could cause large amounts of spam in the logs.
  • A GPU memory leak in the KDE portal implementation has been fixed.

plasma 6.6.0

  • Support for screen mirroring in the Wayland session has been significantly improved, with much more reliable operation.
  • It is now possible to use the kscreen-doctor tool to add custom screen modes, which is useful for supporting uncommon screens or those with incorrect behavior in the Wayland session.
  • KWin's rule to force title bar and frame now also works with Wayland native application windows.
  • It is now possible to move windows with Meta+drag when using a graphics tablet stylus.

Coming soon to your KDE distribution

Regarding bugs, the 5 high-priority bugs have been maintained, and the 15-minute bugs have been increased from 37 to 55.

KDE Plasma 6.5.5 is expected to arrive on January 13th, and Frameworks 6.22 on January 9th. Plasma 6.6 will take a little longer: the chosen date is February 17th, 2026. No official announcement has been made yet, so it is expected that there will continue to be three Plasma versions throughout at least 2026.

Vía: KDE Blog.